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He helped a lot of people. I have no idea how he was memorialized in the world offline, but for a very long time, if you had a problem and found your way to SR's Tech Support forum, P5 was there to help. I knew him for nearly 20 years and I admired him and what he did. It seems right to observe his life and work here.

I don't know if any SR old timers are still around, but if anyone remembers P5_133XL from the late 90s and early 2000s, it appears that he passed away at the end of February (second name down on the list). P5 was at one time a very frequent contributor here, especially in the Tech Support forums.
Death on the internet is a weird thing and I really hope he's still out there somewhere, but one of the folks who really helped make SR's forums worthwhile in its early days seems to be gone and maybe a few people here might like to know about that.

i don't normally go to mcdonald's, but make sure to go there this weekend! i'll be selling my own food in the parking lot.
Did you actually read what I wrote on SF, honold? Let me re-iterate for you:
Unlike 99% of the people who are talking about this, I have actually tried it. I used a 20GB drive. It turned into a "30GB" drive. My initial disk load was around 90% of the capacity of the 20GB drive, and when I was done, I loaded ~10GB of AVIs.
I played the AVIs (which are sensitive to data corruption), booted the drive, played some games, and played the AVIs some more.
If data is being corrupted, I haven't encountered any errors from it yet. That doesn't mean I don't believe it isn't happening, just that I have yet to find any evidence of it.
Someone with a 500MB drive with Windows 98 loaded on it would have a much better chance of finding said corruption.
While I'm at it: it takes about 10 minutes to ghost a working windows install, about a minute to boot up, 15 seconds to start ghost, 15 more seconds to switch the drives, another minute to boot again, and maybe a minute to start disk management and check the drive capacity. You guys who have some old, crappy disk laying around can try it for yourself in about 15 minutes. That's what I did.

If you figure out why the 6-phase power regulator on Gigabyte's most expensive nforce2 board is worth like $70 more than the board that doesn't have a 6-phase power regulator, be sure to let us know, OK?

Er... in 2000 or XP, in the "Sounds/Multimedia" applet in control panel, there's a Speaker Configuration dropdown that lets you pick 5.1. RealTek's SoundMan utility also includes a configuration tool, both for the jacks and for speakers, that you might have to use. I don't know if the regaulr A7N8X includes the RealTek tool or just something similar. I'd have to imagine they do.

You're worried about DVD-RAM support?
Takes all kinds, I guess.
I believe the drive you're thinking of was to be made by Panasonic. If we're thinking of the same device, I think its drawback was that it wouldn't be able to write CDs.
Since I use my DVD burners to write CDs pretty regularly, I'd call that a drawback.
I have a couple of Sony and a LiteOn (Sony) multiformat burners that I've been very happy with. Don't know about the others, but the Sony is at least a solid product.

I had the really soul-crushing experience of having my best friend and fiance wake up one morning and decide she's gay.
I am not trying to be funny here. I've lived a nightmare because of it for the last year.
But, here's the part that will be amusing to you guys.
Imagine being in your mid-20s and going through that moment you went through at 11 or 12 or whatever when you finally said "WHOAH-HO, I *REALLY* like looking at the bosums and other jiggly bits".
Open staring. Open drooling. Turning completely around to "get a better look". Slack jaw. The works.
And when talking to an attractive woman... she did exactly the thing that that women accuse men of doing: Talking directly to the chest.
As bad as anyone is in this thread, I don't think it's possible to be as bad as she was the first few months after she "discovered" women.
I will now going to return to my crippling depression.

I started with yggsdrasil, too. I got it, a FreeBSD CD and a CD full of lesstif applications from Walnut Creek.
This was back in the days when more people didn't have CD-ROM drives than had them.
I started with BSD, with the understanding that it was closer to the SunOS 4 stuff I was using in class. And it was, but it didn't support the 2nd CPU in my workstation (yes, I had an SMP 486.), and my attempts at building my own kernel resulted in something that just wouldn't boot, even though it compiled correctly.
I tolerated BSD - it handled internet stuff better than OS/2 2.1 or NT3.1, after all, until the end of a semester, then pulled out the yggsdrasil CD.
The install off the CD was pretty bad, but once I got it running, I had something that was at least as functional as BSD. Once I got it online to start grabbing updates, though, I knew I had a winner, since even back then (.94, maybe? I don't think it'd hit 1.0 at that point), there was work on an SMP branch for the kernel.
I submitted bug reports and re-built about once a week, pretty faithfully until I ditched my 486 and later Pentium SMP rigs for a PPro 200.
As far as OS files, yes, it bugs the hell out of me. More with Windows than Unix, since everything ends up dumped in just a couple of directories (Why the hell is this stuff from Symantec in my OS libraries folder???). Making stuff from source on a *nix machine, things go in /usr/local/, which normally tells me right away that if nothing else, I probably don't need it.

When dealing with recruiters, .DOC and plain text.
In my case, I make my resume with HTML and rename it with a .DOC extension. Word opens it just fine.
Be sure to include a cover letter. Be sure to customize your resume to the job. Don't include programming skills for non-programming jobs, for example.
Technical recruiters are about a half-step above HR bimbos on the low end of the upward slope of the IQ bell curve, so don't confuse them with anything other than a .DOC or plaintext file. A lot of 'em won't open an RTF or PDF, even if they have software to do it (I have seen this happen. Not at a tech firm, but an executive search company. Same difference. What's this? This isn't Word! [Delete])
If you're submitting to a large organization, they probably have some kind of scripts that process your resume into their internal format, or parse it into a database. Where it will probably never be seen again.
When you get an interview, be sure to send a thank-you card or email if you had anything like a decent experience. I found interviewers tend to remember me better when I do that.
I don't bother to send out resumes through the internet any more. I have NEVER gotten a job that way, and I typically do work for 10 - 20 different companies in a given year.

I'd suggest Maxtor unless you're involved in a serious relationship with someone in WD's RMA department, or would like to be. RMAing 13 WD drives in six months is quite an achievement when you only own nine to begin with. Not that I'm bitter or anything.